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fromThe Verge
3 days agoNew York wants to regulate Roblox
New York will expand online parental controls and age verification to include online gaming platforms like Roblox under the proposed Stop Online Predators Act.
For years, lawmakers at the state and federal levels have tried a variety of measures aimed at making kids safer on the internet, from kids-tailored design standards to age verification for individual websites. More recently, a new model has caught on in the states, and now it's gaining steam in Congress: putting the onus on app stores nationwide. The new approach to age verification orders mobile app stores to verify users' ages, then send that information to apps when users download them.